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JKLF in United Kingdom will commemorate the 29th Martyrdom anniversary of its founder Maqbool Butt Shaheed. A Protest in front of Indian High Commission London has been organized on 11 February 2013, in which protesters will handover a memorandum to Indian officials demanding remains of Maqbool Butt Shaheed returned to his family.

A seminar will also be held in House of Lords on 11 February 2013 in which British Parliamentarians, prominent Kashmiri leaders in UK and other intellectuals have been invited.

JKLF in UK have also launched a parliamentary petition to be signed by members of House of Commons and Lords during an All Party Parliamentary Group onKashmirmeeting held inLondonon 31 October 2012. So far 30 members of UK parliament have signed the petition.

Maqbool Butt, Kashmir’s most revered leader of the independence movement and a former ‘prisoner of conscience’, was imprisoned in Pakistan for his radical views and was labelled as an ‘enemy agent’ there, but ironically hanged by India on 11 February, 1984, exactly one week before his 46th birthday. He was executed inside Delhi’s Tihar Jail where he had been imprisoned for 8 years awaiting trial of a politically motivated case against him.

Apart from the programmes mentioned above, there will be many events by JKLF branches throughout United Kingdom including a large public gathering in Luton on 17th February 2013.

JKLF in Britain has appealed people in Britain to join these protests and support these demonstrations by bringing their families.

(London) The UK chapter of the pro-independence Jammu Kashmir
Liberation Front (JKLF), in its extra ordinary meeting of the executive and
working committee held in Watford near London, has warned of dire consequences
if JKLF leaders arrested during the ‘jail bharo’ movement are not released
immediately without charge along with many other Kashmiri activists who were
sentenced earlier in the month under the draconian laws and framed up charges
from 20 years back.

In
a press statement released from London, the JKLF announced that their members will start
picketing Indian missions in UK and Europe including embassies and consulates to draw the world
attention to the plight of Kashmiri prisoners in J&K and in Indian prisons.

The
JKLF statement said that Kashmir has become a police state where freedom of expression
and freedom of speech is dealt with long prison sentences and where men, women
and small children are imprisoned because they demand their right to freedom and
independence. Instead of punishing the 500 army and security forces
personnel who have been named in the latest report as the perpetrators of human
rights violations including, rape, molestation, kidnapping and extrajudicial
killings, the Indian and state authorities continue to punish innocent people
belonging to many different pro-freedom organisations. During the 3
hour long meeting, JKLF leaders expressed hope that Indian civil society seems
to have woken up in Delhi over the case of a student rape and needed
to pay urgent attention to what was happening in Kashmir.

“Our
demand is simple that all political prisoners should be released immediately
and the draconian laws that prevent people from protesting against injustices
and atrocities must be withdrawn.

“JKLF
is not just a name but it’s a face of the revolutionary movement, and each one
of its leaders and workers is committed to the cause of national independence
and if Indian and state authorities think that they will be able to supress our movement
by imprisoning and awarding long sentences to freedom fighters, they have to
think again”, the JKLF leaders said.

JKLF
delegates including the office bearers from London, Luton, Watford, Slough, Bedford,
Peterborough, Birmingham,
Nottingham, Derby,
Stoke, Walsall, Manchester,
Oldham and Bradford attended the meeting and condemn the Indian action in
Kashmir. During the meeting an action plan was drawn up for
coming months to draw world attention to the plight of Kashmir.

JKLF
president Azmat Khan, told the meeting that international diplomatic and
political pressures was needed, urged members to contact their members of UK
and European Parliament to apprise them of the latest situation in
Kashmir. He said that he was going to raise the issue with international
human rights organizations and the UN Human Rights Council. He said, that he
was hopeful that Pakistani mission in the UN would draw the attention of the
international community towards the dire situation in Indian occupied Kashmir during the forthcoming UN Security Council meeting where the Syrian
situation is to be debated.

On
3rd December,
2012, a kangaroo court in Jammu awarded life sentences to two Kashmiris Sheikh Nazir
Ahmed and Shoukat Ahmed, who had both spent nearly 15 years in Indian jails
without trial after being arrested in 1990s. They were released on bail over 7
years ago but rearrested recently and awarded life imprisonment.

London (6th January 2013): Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front
(JKLF) London branch has extended its full support to the five-phase protest
programme “Jail Bharo Tehreek” against life sentencing of Kashmiri prisoners,
death sentences and subjecting them to the worst kind of torture. The
agitation started on Friday 4th January from the party headquarters at Maisuma,
Srinagar in which around 50 activists
including JKLF Chairman Mohammad Yasin Malik were arrested and sent to central
Jail. The agitation will continue till January 14 in all cities and towns of
Indian occupied Kashmir.

In a statement issued after the emergency meeting of JKLF
London Branch, the statement said that India
seems to have started the new judicial torture policy to suppress the genuine
sentiments of Kashmiri people. The branch lauded the efforts of JKLF leadership
by highlighting the much important issue of plight of Kashmiri prisoners. The
statement further said that Illegal life imprisonment, death sentence & torture
cannot stop the kashmiri peoples struggle for national independence.

Speaking on this occasion, JKLF London Branch President Mahmood Faiz said that Kashmiri’s
living abroad stand with the leadership of JKLF, fully support the programme to
highlight the plight of Kashmiri prisoners across India.

The meeting was addressed by Senor Vice President of JKLF in
UK, Cllr
Mahmood Hussain. He said that India
has not yet learnt a lesson by hanging Maqbool Butt Shaheed and killing
thousands of Kashmiris. Cllr Mahmood Hussain added that such actions by the
Indian government over the years have given us Kashmiri's more courage and
strength to fight against the forcible occupation of our motherland.

The meeting was well attended by the members of JKLF London
branch including office bearers Tariq Sharif, Mohammad Saleem, Javaid Rashid,
Tasalat Hussain, Sanawar Hussain, Naveed Ahmed and others.